We need your help to get state leaders to start taking Whatcom County’s water management crisis seriously, and get working on major solutions right away. Despite last November’s flooding disaster, as well as the harmful drought that came before it, the mayors of Sumas, Everson, Nooksack, Lynden and Ferndale ...
PRESS RELEASE - February 3, 2022 Contact: Dillon Honcoop, dhoncoop@savefamilyfarming.org Farmers Join North Whatcom Cities in Plea for State Leaders to Stop Ignoring Water Management Crisis Mayors of Sumas, Everson, Nooksack, Lynden and Ferndale blast state leaders for leaving major water crisis “virtually unnoticed” (LYNDEN, Wash.) The ...
PRESS RELEASE - January 5, 2021 Contact: Dillon Honcoop - dhoncoop@savefamilyfarming.org Whatcom Family Farmers president: “A comprehensive effort to pursue all possible solutions… must begin immediately” (LYNDEN, Wash.) As wide swaths of north Whatcom County continue to clean up and rebuild after November’s devastating flooding disaster, the local farming community ...
Critical projects will protect families, fish and farms – but will require community-wide collaboration By Rich Appel, President, Whatcom Family Farmers Families across Whatcom County devastated by November’s flooding disaster in the Nooksack River Basin need our help with more than just putting their lives back together. It is urgent ...
